Woven-wire fencing



{No Model.)

A. J. BATES.

. WOVEN WIRE FENCING. No. 561,193. Patented June 2, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT J. BATES, OF J OLIET, ILLINOIS.

WOVEN-WIRE FENCING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 561,193, dated June 2,1896.

Application filed January 6, 1896. Serial No. 574,445. (No model.)

of sections of the fencing; Fig. 3, a detailed side view of a portion ofthe fencing, showing the manner of making the same; Fig. 4, a sectionalview of a similar portion of the fencing with the coils thereofcompleted; Fig. 5,

a View of the same prior to the interlocking of the coils thereof, andFig. 6 a view similar to Fig. 4 with the ends of the coiled wirespointed and extending to form barbs.

This invention relates to certain improvements in wire fencing, in thatclass known as woven-wire fencing; andit consists of a series ofparallel wire strands connected, each strand to the adjacent strands, bymeans of a series of stay-wires arranged connecting the strands by beingcoiled at their end portions about the strands in such manner as tointerlock the coils of the stay-wires, and it further consists inpointing the terminals of said staywire end portions and so making saidinterlocking coils that said terminals project, thereby presentinglaterally-extendin g barbs at each intersection of the fencing, whichimprovements are fully set forth in the following specification andpointed out in the claims.

The object of this invention is to produce a fencing of this classadapted to have graduated or variable meshes, to be so made as to beflexible sidewise without injury to the stay-wires thereof by bending,to be made with or without barbs, but the greatest object, however,being to produce a fencing of this class which is adapted to be morecheaply made than has heretofore been done.

Referring to the drawings, S represents the several wire strands of thefencing, D the stay-wires, and O and O the coils of said staywires wherethey are coiled about the said strands, the coils 0 representing thosewhere the ends of the said stay-wires are interlocked or intercoiled,and the coils C are those of said stay-wires about the top and bottomstrand-wires of the fencing. (See Fig. 3.) Said stay-wires D are placed,prior to being coiled about the strand-wires S, so their upper end comesat one side and their lower end at the opposite side of their respectiveconnecting strand-wires, as represented in Fig. 5, so that it becomespossible to coil the ends of each adjacent pair of stays jointly aboutthe strand-wires, as represented in process in Fig. 3, and therebyinterlock them upon the said strand-wires, and further form asideturning hinge-joint at each said intercoiled junction, so that theseveral strand-wires S become hinged together, so as to be flexiblesidewise without bending the stay-wires D, (see dotted lines in Fig. 4,)as well as being stayed together.

The fencing thus made is of full panel width and in service is securedto fence-posts in a taut condition, as is usual in erecting such classof fencing.

Figs. 1, 3, and 4 show the fencing made plain or without barbs, andFigs. 2 and 6 show the same made with barbs B and P, the barbs B beingformed simply by making the staywires somewhat longer than for plainfencing and cutting their terminals pointed instead of square off, andby concluding the coiling operation while said pointed ends yet extendsufficiently to form the laterally-extending barbs. A third barb-prod Pis formed at both the top and bottom strands S by placing and coilingother wires, which are like unto the stay-wires D, with the saidstay-wire ends, which coil about the top and bottom strands, and bycutting said supplied wires pointed, thereby presenting those of the topstrand upright and those of the bottom strand downward, as representedin Figs. 2 and 6, and in the manufacture of the fencing it may be madeeither with or without the barbs. Heretofore it has been usual inapplying stay-wires to the strands of a full panel of wire fence to usesingle stay-wires for jointly connecting the several strands, and inapplying such stay-wires as many separate and distinct operations asthere are strand-wires become necessary to properly apply them, whereasin this invention thenumber of stay-wires employed is equal tothe-spaces between the several strand-wires, and by reason thereof theseveral coils necessary to be made to properly apply them to thestrand-Wires may be and are made jointly. Therefore should there beeleven strand-Wires, as shown in the drawings, a single stay-Wire wouldrequire eleven separate distinct operations to apply it to the strands,While by reason of the plurality of stay-wires employed at one verticalsection but one joint operation is necessary to apply them. Hence afence of this class having eleven strand-Wires can be made With abouteleven times greater speed than with such other type of stay-wires, thusmaking it possible to manufacture the same more cheaply than has beenpossible to do heretofore.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new and useful, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. The herein-describedWoven-wire fencing comprising the several plain parallel strand-Wires Sand the plurality of single plain stay-wires D arranged connecting saidstrand- Wires together by being coiled, at their end portions, aboutsaid strand-wires and intercoiled at their meeting ends, substantiallyas set forth.

2. The herein-described Woven-wire fencing comprising the several plainparallel strand-Wires, and the plurality of single plain stay-wiresarranged connecting said strand- Wires together, by being coiled, attheir end portions, about said strand-wires; intereoiled at theirmeeting ends, and terminating with. extending prods, substantially asset forth.

3. The herein-described woven-wire fenein g, comprising the series ofparallel strand- Wires arranged in graduated order, and the plurality ofsingle graduated stay-wires ar ranged connecting said strand-Wirestogether by being coiled, at their end portions, about saidstrand-wires, and intereoiled at their meeting ends; whereby fencing ismade having graduated meshes, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing wit nesses.

ALBERT .l'. BATES.

In presence of- JOHN C. PERRY, WM. J. llurcnms.

